asciilifeform: land vehicles are not only lacking in the distance-from-other-schmucks aspect of the boat, but in usa are specifically (ianal - check with up-to-date sources) excluded from the juridicial definition of 'home' for the purposes of search&seizure
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there's a reason orlov et al live in boats and not trucks
asciilifeform: trinque: ergo we know who -actually- rules usa.
asciilifeform: and before mircea_popescu observes that 'no one has the balls' - if the 'balls-enabled' jfk appeared, a 'counter-jfk' would materialize out of thin aether☟︎
asciilifeform: depending on the acuteness of the need.
asciilifeform: a modern 'jfk' might not be shot, but petraeused or childpronned instead☟︎
asciilifeform: in fact, typically what charges in 1m can discharge in 1ms.
asciilifeform: there is no counter-argument possible.
asciilifeform: <pete_dushenski> ... A prototype aluminum battery recharged in one minute, the scientists said." << what charges in 1min, can discharge in 1m.
asciilifeform: and he only tried to close one ministry.
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> trinque president can actually fire the entire government. and, logically, any serious president would have to << and get jfk'd.
asciilifeform: at any rate, this is not 'woodcollector' and i don't much give a hoot -how- the parts get on the board
asciilifeform: or simply the fact of the p&p machine being loaded by hand from clips instead of magazine ?
asciilifeform: who, one might wonder, do they use? chinese gurlz flown in for the occasion ?
asciilifeform: decimation: their 'hand-placed' probably involves a mechanically-cranked apparatus. or someone with much better hands than i
asciilifeform: you can convert the thing into a disk that perverts blocks in a particular way, or emulates a keyboard and types in obscenities, etc, etc.
asciilifeform: joecool: phison is a maker of cheap usb keychain drives that contain general-purpose micros. an ad hoc sdk was published recently. i had something quite like it, unpublished, in 2012; and hell knows how many other folks also did
asciilifeform: they believe that it can be 'undone' as SAR was
asciilifeform: incidentally, usg doctrine is that 'fresh' nuke powers don't really 'count' - much as usa did not count in 1947 because, elementarily, not enough of the specific industrial base to secure a steady supply of nukes
asciilifeform: nothing punctures shitgnomes like a public, non-plausiblydeniable still-smoking 'nsakey' unhinted at in any 'leak'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the racket in question here is where usg plays hand-muppets and runs faux 'we're l337, we sell to 1r4n' at the same time as 'proletariat united against ir nukes' on the other muppet hand
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: su was also nuclear power, didn't keep the buggers from shipping diddled tech there by the gigatonne
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because this could be just the necessary lethal stab to the 'nuclear iran' shillfest.
asciilifeform: first, look to see if copy-1 does anything -other- and load & jump to copy-2.
asciilifeform: 'There are actually two copies of the bootloader in the NOR flash: the first one is failsafe, and doing bootloaderupdate will replace the second image. Basically after the CPU comes out of reset, it boots the failsafe bootloader image (the first one) in the NOR flash. The failsafe finds and boots the actual bootloader image (the second one) in the NOR flash. This bootloader then loads the kernel from the USB drive and boots it
asciilifeform: also note how there is none of this (or the other let's-sell-boobietrapped-goods-to-persians) 'shartups') in the snowden releases.
asciilifeform: these became popular, presumably, with 'orcs' on a budget
asciilifeform: it sold routers that gave very reasonable performance for 1/20th the cost of cisco et al
asciilifeform: i think i can see why ubiquiti was picked for this particular role in the usg shitgnome muppet theatre
asciilifeform: to the extent they were not already raped in the 'liberty bsd' piece and in this here thread
